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EOEAGINE^ (Wrigit). 



\Lohostemon. 



densely leafy up to the inflorescence; leaves linear-lanceolate or 

 ensiforra, almost glabrous, bearing only a few very short adpressed 

 silky hairs, radical 4-5 in. long, attenuate into a petiole, cauline 

 semi-amplexicaul ; inflorescence spicate, linear-oblong, 2-3 in. long, 

 5-6 lin. wide ; calyx 5-partite, densely villous with greenish-silvery 

 hairs outside; lobes obtuse; corolla 2 lin, long; stamens exserted. 

 Echium viridi-argenteiim, DC. Prod. x. 13. 



Coast RBQloif : Stellenbosch Div. ; Stellenbosch, EcUon Sf Zeyher. 



Imperfectly known species. 



47. L. capitiformis (DC. Prod. x. 12) ; stem shrubby ; branches 

 pilose-hispid ; leaves erect, elliptic, more rarely oblong, obtuse, 

 strigose-pilose on both surfaces with subadpressed scarcely bulbous- 

 based hairs ; flowers collected into a small terminal head ; bracts 

 oblong, linear ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, hispid ; corolla regular, glab- 

 rous, as long as the calyx-tube ; lobes patent ; stamens exserted ; 

 filaments with an ovate erect scale at their base, very densely villous 

 on its margins. Echium hergianum, Drege, Zwei Pfianzengeogr. 

 Documente, 79, not elsewhere. 



Coast Region : Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 1000-2003 ft., Drege, 

 7853. 



48. I. cephaloideus (DC. Prod. x. 12) ; stem shrubby ; branches 

 straight, erect, terete, at the apex villous-hirsute, at the base glab- 

 rous ; leaves lanceolate, erect, rather acute, on both sides with 

 subadpressed bulbous-based hairs ; cymes congested into an ovate 

 head ; calyx half as long as the corolla, densely white-villous ; lobes 

 lanceolate ; corolla glabrous ; stamens shortly exserted ; filaments at 

 the base with an ovate erect scale densely villous on its margin. 

 Echium sp., Drege, Zwei PJlanzengeogr. Documente, 111. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; between Tygerberg and Simon's Bay, under 

 500 ft., Brige, 9359, 



49. L. hispidus (DC. Prod. x. 10); stem shrubby, rugose, 

 glabrous, fuscous, 1 ft. or more high ; branches hispid-pilose at the 

 apex, erect; leaves sessile, entire, lanceolate, both surfaces and 

 margin hispid-pilose, patent or subrevolute ; cymes terminal, spicate ; 

 calyx white-villous ; corolla white ; stamens included. Echium 

 Mspidum, Thunb. in Schrad. Neues Journ. i. iii., 40 ; Thunb. Prod. 

 33, and Fl. Cap. ed. Sehult. 164 ; Lehm, PL Agper. 433. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunlerg. 



50. L. lasiophyllus (DC. Prod. x. 10) ; stem shrubby ; branches 

 with adpressed hairs ; leaves lanceolate, apiculate, grey-silky, 

 16 lin, long, 6 lin. wide, narrowed at the base ; cymes short, spicate ; 

 calyx-lobes as long as the corolla ; corolla 8-10 lin. long, white, sub- 

 regular, pubescent outside ; stamens as long ae the corolla ; style 



